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Batcave (Metropolis)

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The Metropolis Batcave was built by Batman at some point after the Knightfall Protocol and his relocation to Metropolis following his acceptance into the Justice League.

Incident Reports[]

Before Kill the Justice League Incident[]

Even after joining the Justice League and entrusting Gotham to his family, Batman needed a personal base of operations. He was uncomfortable working out of the Hall of Justice and sought a more private location. He found a disused subterranean area under a church in Suicide Slums and, likely with the Justice League's help, quickly built a new Batcave without public knowledge. This new hideout allowed him to continue his work in the shadows, on his own terms.

Kill the Justice League Incident[]

With the aid of Gizmo, the Suicide Squad were able to find and enter this Batcave in order to look for a weakness of Batman's they could exploit in order to kill him. Delving deeper in the cave the team finds the cave's Bat Computer, along with a hologram message of Batman to Tim Drake. With the activation of the hologram meaning himself, along with the other members of the League, have gone rogue, the hologram message begins the BABEL Protocols; a contingency plan Batman had secretly developed without his team member's knowledge, with the main goal of the protocols being the creation of countermeasures designed to nullify each member of the League. Using the Bat Computer to skip parts of the protocol they already knew and had utilized already, the hologram revealed, much to the annoyance of Harley Quinn, that Batman hadn't created an "Anti-Batman device" to stop him, not long after this King Shark and the other members of his team find the bloodied mask of Robin on the floor, Harley believing Batman might have actually killed him. Imploring Tim to find the rest of the Bat Family, the hologram gives Tim a speech about the importance of being part of a team, as well as considering his team as family, something Bruce claims to have learnt from Tim, the speech proving to be a bonding moment for all four members of the Suicide Squad.

Just as the hologram is about to reveal a way to weaken Superman however, Batman fills the entire cave with his Fear Toxin, exposing each member to their deepest fears while stalking and attacking them in the form of the "Demon Bat" persona he had taken on after the Knightfall Protocol. Eventually, Harley, with the aid of the rest of her team, successfully managed to expose Batman to a different strain of the Fear Toxin, allowing the four of them to fight and beat Batman, stopping the effects of the Fear Toxin and returning them to the real world in the Batcave, and with an unconscious Batman the team leave the Batcave, taking him to LexCorp to find out a new way to weaken Superman.

Interior[]

The Batcave has multiple pillars and platforms from his original purpose of transferring chemicals and supplies. Batman refurbished them to contain modified Fear Toxin to disable intruders. Deeper inside, there is a computer with numerous contingencies to disable the Justice League. Next to said computer is a display case of mementos from past cases. To the left of the computer is a lower platform that has a display case for five MK 8 Batsuits.

Trivia[]

  • Robin accessed the Batcave before the events of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, leaving only his bloodied mask behind, implying the Batman clone killed him or Tim went into hiding to heal.
  • Display cases in the Metropolis Batcave are shown to contain the following items that reference previous games in the Arkham series:
  • An additional display case has the canisters of Scarecrow's fear toxin from Arkham Knight, along with his mask. In other words for the latter, the hay-like material - akin to his mask from Arkham Asylum - that was used to reconstruct his mutilated face.
    • This strongly implies that he didn't really surgically reconstruct his face with said material and just had a very well-crafter mask on the entire time. Should this be the case, then this might also suggest that Crane felt that such his facial reconstruction surgery had a big chance of being fatally botched.
  • A locked AR program can be found with the words "lethality enabled" as it's main mode. However, the Squad is unable to activate it, implying only Batman or members of the Bat Family can access the AR programs in the Metropolis Batcave.
    • The mode is implied to allow the AR programs to actually do serious harm to whoever trains in them, meaning either Batman enabled the mode to further improve his skills, become a more lethal and deadly opponent while under the effects of Brainiac's mind control by "killing" the AR holograms, or he recently enabled the lethality mode as a way to trap any unsuspecting member of the Bat Family - also while under Brainiac's influence.
  • If you visit in the DLC, the cave has a glitch that makes it look like a Scarecrow Nightmare.
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